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    Carl Van Vechten (/væn ˈvɛktən/; June 17, 1880 – December 21, 1964) was an American writer and artistic photographer who was a patron of the Harlem Renaissance...
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  • Carl Van Vechten (1880–1964), American writer and photographer Helen Van Vechten (1868–1949), American printer of fine press books Alice Van Vechten Brown...
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  • Nigger Heaven is a novel by Carl Van Vechten published in October 1926. The book is set during the Harlem Renaissance in the United States in the 1920s...
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    career. In 1914, Marinoff married American writer and photographer Carl Van Vechten. The two were introduced through mutual friends in the summer of 1912...
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    Writings (1971) Stein, Gertrude; van Vechten, Carl (1986), Burns, Edward (ed.), The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Carl Van Vechten, 1913–1946, New York: Columbia...
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    Firecrackers, a Realistic Novel is a 1925 novel by American author Carl Van Vechten. It is one of several fictional works published that same year which...
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    However, it also depended on the patronage of white Americans, such as Carl Van Vechten and Charlotte Osgood Mason, who provided various forms of assistance...
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    Beaton, Man Ray, and Carl Van Vechten, among others. She married actor Peter Van Eyck in 1940, but the marriage was unsuccessful. Van Eyck was the father...
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    campus buildings that contribute to the historic district include: The Carl Van Vechten Gallery was built in 1888. It served as the school's gymnasium before...
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  • sixty per cent of the book, in four installments. As for her friends, Carl Van Vechten liked it; Henry McBride thought it was too commercial; Ernest Hemingway...
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    model of the Harlem Renaissance, his portraits and sculptures taken by Carl Van Vechten, Richmond Barthé and George Platt Lynes among others. François "Féral"...
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    his best friend and writer, Arna Bontemps, and patron and friend, Carl Van Vechten, he wrote two volumes of autobiography, The Big Sea and I Wonder as...
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    Baldwin photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1955...
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    Renaissance. Among his close friends and colleagues were Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten. Taylor's work is in the collection of numerous institutions such as:...
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    apartment at 23 Fifth Avenue in Greenwich Village. Notable guests included Carl Van Vechten, Avery Hopwood, Margaret Sanger, Emma Goldman, Charles Demuth, "Big...
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    Venise). After his death, his photographs and papers were collected by Carl Van Vechten and donated to the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale...
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    Updike, Carl Van Vechten, Willa Cather, H.L. Mencken, Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett and Langston Hughes. Knopf helped Carl Van Vechten launch writers...
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    Eden). In 1906, Hopwood was introduced to writer and photographer Carl Van Vechten. The two became close friends and were sometimes sexual partners. In...
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    Armstrong-Jones in 1958, photographed by Carl Van Vechten...
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    Photograph by Carl Van Vechten, 1959...
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    Pierre Balmain and the actress Ruth Ford, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1947...
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    actress of the Harlem Renaissance era. Photographs of her taken by Carl Van Vechten are numerous, and the writer and painter Richard Bruce Nugent wrote...
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    included towering figures Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Malcolm X, Carl Van Vechten, Picasso, Jean Miotte, Ollie Harrington, Nikki Giovanni, Ishmael Reed...
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    Ray in Paris, on June 16, 1934, making "wild eyes" for photographer Carl Van Vechten Man Ray, Paris, 1975, photographed by Lothar Wolleh Man Ray and Tristan...
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    Jackson, photographed by Carl Van Vechten in 1962...
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    2009, after 113 performances. Platt starred as White House Chief of Staff Carl Anheuser in Roland Emmerich's 2012, a disaster film released November 13...
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    blue-gray eyes, Kraft posed for George Platt Lynes, Cecil Beaton and Carl Van Vechten. The relationship between Copland and Kraft remained unknown to the...
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    Arlen at Carnegie Hall.[non-primary source needed] Philip Johnson by Carl Van Vechten, c.1933 Kenneth Macpherson (left foreground) and Daniels at the opening...
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    A number of influential figures of the era were present, including Carl Van Vechten, Marguerite d'Alvarez, Victor Herbert, Walter Damrosch, and Willie...
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    a happy ending is a 1924 novel by Carl Van Vechten. The novel exists in the same fictional universe as Van Vechten's previous novel, The Blind Bow-boy...
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